Ariel Petrovics is a Research Associate at University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, and holds positions as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Her research examines the effectiveness of foreign policy strategies on nuclear proliferation and international security.
Her newest edited volume, Atomic Backfires: Why Nuclear Policies Fail forthcoming with MIT Press (coedited with S. Herzog and G.D. Arceneaux) examines some of the risks for counterproductive consequences in nuclear policies. Other examples of her work have been published in the Journal of Global Security Studies, the Washington Quarterly, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and Texas National Security Review, among others.
She has previously held positions as a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow with Managing the Atom and International Security at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the IGCC Herbert York Fellow, and a predoctoral research associate at CGSR. She received her PhD from the University of California, Davis. Her work has been supported by the Stanton Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Charles Koch Foundation.
